Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether Hindu, Moslem or follower of virtually any other religion, India's father of the bride teeters close to bankruptcy. A moneylender's dream, he is forced by custom to fork over a huge dowry for his daughter, start paying off every member of the bridegroom's...
Les Ballets Africains is the creation of Keita Fodeba, a 37-year-old lawyer who became Guinea's Minister of the Interior when that country chose independence last fall in Charles de Gaulle's referendum. As a law student in Paris in 1949, Fodeba led two other Guinean...
To top it off, half a dozen companies weighed in with stock splits and higher dividends. Rocket enginemaker Thiokol Chemical Corp., drugmaker Chas. Pfizer and Colgate-Palmolive split three for one, Lily-Tulip Cup two for one. Eastman Kodak, whose stock has nearly doubled in value, to $152.50 a share...
But McCone touched a sensitive committee nerve almost at once by saying that "efforts during the past five years have paid off in remarkable progress. I believe we have had a good program." Snapped Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, author of a bill to spend $1 billion on...
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